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The story of the week
The day Amazon bought all the robots
The purchase that defined warehouse robotics wasn’t a launch: it was a withdrawal. This is the story of how Amazon kept Kiva’s orange robots for itself, and how its best customer answered by building a competitor.
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Stories
Stories · Jun 18, 2026
The engineer who taught a robot to walk
For three years, Marta Ruiz filmed every fall. Today her robot crosses a room with nobody touching it.
Stories · Jun 9, 2026
The day a robot “cooked” live on stage
The video had 40 million views. It took us one afternoon to find the human hiding behind the robot.
Where robots already do real work, and where they only promise to.
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I love it when a robot finally works for real in a warehouse.
Research & data
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We analyse every robot with the same method and publish the data openly. No smoke.
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Guides & comparisons
Updated 2026-07
The best warehouse AMRs
For most e-commerce warehouses, the Locus Origin is the best buy: autonomous navigation, a rental (RaaS) model with no big upfront cost, and proven scale of 6+ billion picks. If you need very high volume, the Geek+ P-Series (goods-to-person) delivers more; the Amazon Proteus is the most autonomous, but it isn’t for sale.
See the case →Updated 2026-06
The best humanoids of 2026
The AIRA-1 wins because it’s the only humanoid here with verified autonomy and a public price.
See the case →One robot, one story and the data. Every week.
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